On June 28, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) voted to propose amendments to the rules governing its whistleblower program. These changes include expanding the typ...
On February 21, 2018, in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, [1] the Supreme Court held that the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower anti-retaliation provisions only apply where a securiti...
On July 7, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated parts of the District Court’s class certification order in In re Petrobras Securities Litigation (“P...
Three recent cybersecurity events highlight the need for companies to review their access controls to limit who has administrator privileges and how long those elevated privileges last.
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Last week, Target Corp. reached a record $18.5 million settlement with 47 states and the District of Columbia to end investigations into Target’s data breach in 2013. The settlement hi...
On June 9, 2016, New York’s highest court issued an important decision on the “common interest doctrine,” limiting the circumstances in which parties with common legal interests may...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a significant opinion last week, reversing a lower court decision and extending the whistleblower anti-retaliation provisions of th...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced a settlement on Monday, June 16, 2014 that marked its first case to protect a whistleblower under the anti-retaliation provisi...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank and the Consumer Financial Protection Act impose overlapping anti-retaliation provisions that generally prohibit retaliation against corporate “whistleblo...
On July 27, 2013 , new legislation was promulgated in France aimed at the ring-fencing and regulation of certain banking activities. In particular, the reform:
addresses the separation o...
